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来自星系形成的反馈对莱曼α透射通量的影响

The impact of feedback from galaxy formation on the Lyman-alpha transmitted flux

Matteo Viel, Joop Schaye, Craig M. Booth

摘要:

在遥远的类星体光谱中看到的莱曼α吸收线森林已经成为宇宙中物质分布的重要探测器。我们使用大,流体动力学模拟从OWLS项目的反馈星系形成的概率分布函数和莱曼α透射通量的功率谱的影响进行调查。虽然金属线冷却并不重要,但活动星系核驱动的大质量星系的星系外流和超新星驱动的低质量星系的风对通量统计有重大影响。在红移z=2.25时,对通量统计的影响与已公布数据集的统计不确定性具有相似的量级。通量统计的变化不是由于光电离气体的温度-密度关系的差异。相反,它们是由密度分布和热的碰撞电离气体部分的变化引起的。利用天体物理学和宇宙学效应引起不同的红移依赖性这一事实,或许可以解开它们之间的纠缠。特别是,反馈效应的大小似乎随着红移的增加而迅速减小。对目前正在进行的调查(如BOSS/SDSS-III和X-Shooter/VLT)的莱曼α森林数据的分析必须考虑银河风。

英文摘要:

The forest of Lyman-alpha absorption lines seen in the spectra of distant quasars has become an important probe of the distribution of matter in the Universe. We use large, hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the effect of feedback from galaxy formation on the probability distribution function and the power spectrum of the Lyman-alpha transmitted flux. While metal-line cooling is unimportant, both galactic outflows from massive galaxies driven by active galactic nuclei and winds from low-mass galaxies driven by supernovae have a substantial impact on the flux statistics. At redshift z=2.25, the effects on the flux statistics are of a similar magnitude as the statistical uncertainties of published data sets. The changes in the flux statistics are not due to differences in the temperature-density relation of the photo-ionised gas. Instead, they are caused by changes in the density distribution and in the fraction of hot, collisionally ionised gas. It may be possible to disentangle astrophysical and cosmological effects by taking advantage of the fact that they induce different redshift dependencies. In particular, the magnitude of the feedback effects appears to decrease rapidly with increasing redshift. Analyses of Lyman-alpha forest data from surveys that are currently in process, such as BOSS/SDSS-III and X-Shooter/VLT, must take galactic winds into account.

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